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the big nOte files - january 2007 |
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updated January 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09, 10, 16 & 28, 2007
please send additions & corrections to bignOte@yucom.be
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Short bits: * * * The Accademia Amieta Ensemble performs Zappa on their "Strictly Off Limits" album. * * * The University of Calgary Wind Ensemble recorded Zappa's 'Dog Breath Variationse on their "Gardens of Dreams" CD * * * * * * The Nasal Retentive Orchestra has a new album scheduled for release (latest info says February) * * * * * * MOFO 2 is out and available in the shops !! * * * * * * Daniele Sepe recorded Zappa's 'Peaches' on his "Suonarne 1 Per Educarne 100" album * * * *
* * Sneaky Pete Kleinow died in January 2007. * * * |
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The latest Cuneiform releases:
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Chad Wackerman is touring with Allan Holdsworth. Check out the dates:
allan holdsworth trio featuring jimmy johnson and chad wackerman
allan holdsworth / alan pasqua band with jimmy haslip and chad wackerman
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Henrietta Bannister adds: I should be grateful if you could mention on your site that for anyone attending the Zappateers festival in February we will give a 10% discount on our Bath and Knebworth commemorative sets which can be viewed on www.rockmusicmemorabilia.com.
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February 2007, a number of new pieces by contemporary composer Frank Nuyts will be performed in Belgium: "Low-key music" 2007/02/27 concert "Week van de Hedendaagse Muziek", Gent, Belgium The "The X-Songs" - performed by Het Vlaams Radio Koor (the Flemish Radio Choir) (olv Johan Duyck)
more info at: www.hardscore.be
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I added data for the "Indiscreet Picture Show" vinyl bootleg. from "On Tour With The Evil Prince": 1974/12/-- the kcet-tv studio, los angeles, ca, usa
f.zappa, t.fowler, c.thompson,
r.underwood, n.m.brock, g.duke side one
side two
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Fred says:
Despite what you may read in certian publications, the correct date of the concert is February 17!
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In tribute to Michael Brecker, a lot of people have been sharing their concert recordings of Michael Brecker and of the Brecker Brothers on DimeADozen. Here's a couple of them: Michael Brecker Band
Michael Brecker Band
Michael Brecker Quartet
Brecker Brothers with the Metropole Orchestra
Brecker Brothers Acoustic Band
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Swedish punk band Ebba Grön performed Frank Zappa's 'Jelly Roll Gum Drop' in concert on 1978/12/08 at the 'Kulturhuset / Joar Blå' in Enköping, Sweden. An audience recording of this concert circulates.
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Time
My band played in clubs that today do not exist.
I used to tie myself into agonized knots over girls
Pam smoked herself to death
Evidently they failed to move soon enough.
I cherish the beautiful young
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Here's another book for your Captain Beefheart library. Kristine McKenna
did a bunch of interviews with various intersting people and collected
them in this book. There's David Lynch, Brian Eno, Tom Waits, Neil Young
and lots of others. And the reason that the book gets a mention here, is
that she did one with Don Van Vliet as well. It's in the book, about ten
pages, including the nice drawing of Van Vliet by comic book artist Jim
Woodring.
book of changes interviews by kristine mckenna
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America
Obese, infantile babyheads
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Iraq
Many people suffer and die
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THE KENEALLIST: January 15, 2007 Hi friends -- here's a big colorful reminder about the
School of Rock All-Stars show in San Diego this weekend: These amazing musicians, all between the ages of 13 and
19, will blow your minds with their ferocious rock power, and I'll do my
best to keep up when I sit in with them. This show is the official introduction of the School of
Rock program to San Diego -- if you know, live with or are a human being
between the ages of 7 and 18 who would like to learn to rock like the
wind, be at this show! THE SECOND BATCH OF UNIVERSE WILL PROVIDE ARTWORK We've just put another round of original Keneally
drawings, done in 2003 on actual pages from the Universe Will Provide
orchestral score, up on eBay.
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The
Bogus Pomp Low Budget Semi-Acoustic Orchestra will perform on Saturday,
February 17th at the Garage in downtown St.Petersburg.
Doors open at 8pm and the show starts around 9:30pm.
Tickets are $10 at the door only, no advance tickets.
We will do two sets of instrumental, semi-acoustic music. Each set will be an hour or a little longer.
This performance will feature Dan Campbell on violin and Tom Kersey
on cello. Also this
will be Jason Caren's debut on drums with the band.
We are very happy to have him aboard!!
The lineup will consist of......
This is a unique lineup and I think it will sound excellent in this format. As always, video and audio recording is welcomed and encouraged. This show will not be a late one or a loud one so, bring someone you wouldn't usually bring.
Also, will also be playing Dalifest at The Dali Museum on Saturday, March 24. More detail will follow. Did
anybody get a video of Zappaween 11. If you did please let me know as
Jerry and the band would love to get a copy. Thanks!
Fred
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Here's another magazine picture: October 1968, the Dutch Hitweek magazine
had Frank Zappa on the cover.
The second picture on the front page shows Wild Man Fischer. It's the same picture that appears on the back cover of his "An Evening With Wild Man Fischer" album. thanks to slime.oofytv.set |
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Online
now: 'Play 2' is the second in a series of releases by Lee Rosevere that focus on experimental, ambient and imaginary soundtrack works. Some of these recordings have been played on internet radio in the past, but many of these recordings are being released for the first time, some recorded over 15 years ago. Free
download from: http://www.wmrecordings.com/releases/wm056.htm best
wishes, Marco
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check out the "NEWS" section on http://pikantik.blog.onet.pl PiKANTiK has a new
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from Almanzart, at the Zappateers site: If you're living in or near Mexico City or if you can do a trip there, you'll have the opportunity to see Harmonia in concert on March 25th at Teatro de la Ciudad, Mexico city 2007/03/27 Harmonia - concert 'Teatro de la Ciudad', Mexico City, Mexico |
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Chris Quinlan has a brand-new and fabulous looking website at http://www.chrisquinlanmusic.com/ Check it out.
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Good
afternoon! Happy new year! This is Mike Keneally, aiming a variety of
words at you! A
few things for you now, regarding NAMM show appearance, me sitting in with
the Paul Green School of Rock All-Stars in San Diego on Jan. 21, and the
opportunity for you to obtain drawings I have done on actual pages from
the score of my orchestral piece The Universe Will Provide. Read on, won't
you, please? NAMM
SHOW APPEARANCES If'n
you have the credentials to get into the NAMM Convention next week in
Anaheim, I'll be doing some appearances therein...
And
then: NAMM
SHOW BOOTH APPEARANCES!
And
then...right after NAMM... Mike
Keneally sitting in with THE PAUL GREEN SCHOOL OF ROCK ALL-STARS
This
is a FREE SHOW, and if you're in or around San Diego you MUST attend. This
is the official coming-out party for the School of Rock program in San
Diego - as you probably know, I've just been named the National Music
Director for the school, and I'll be the music director for the upcoming
central San Diego branch (location to be disclosed shortly). If you or
your kid is interested in this program this show is a great opportunity to
find out more, and to hear some fantastic music. Paul Green will be
presenting the All-Stars onstage and I'll sit in on some tunes. I'll
remind you of these gigs again next week, along with some updated info on
the hat. and Boil That Dust Speck special edition DVDs. THE
UNIVERSE WILL PROVIDE SCORE PAGE DRAWINGS ON eBAY I
also wanted you to know that we just put up four of my original drawings,
done on actual score pages from the original The Universe Will Provide
orchestral score, on eBay. I did 44 of these drawings during the
rehearsals in 2003 for the premiere of TUWP, and these are the first four
we've put up for auction. More
details can be found on each individual listing. These make superb
post-Christmas gifts for the drawings-on-score-pages lover in your life.
Auction ends Sunday. Also,
at http://www.keneally.com, there's a photo of me wearing a very old hat
which you might like to see. Thanks
everyone! Your
confidante, Mike
K.
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Fireworks director Brian Coughlin informed me that 28 musicians will be added to the Fireworks octet. The band has been working on this project for almost two years and is really looking forward to it.
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The picture on the right shows a Japanese promotional Frank Zappa music box. The little machine actually plays the Zappa tune 'Peaches En Regalia'.
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from alt.fan.frank-zappa / Hoodini Missing
Persons finds new life It took a 52-foot fall from a window in Los Angeles to seal Dale Bozzio's fate as lead singer of the '80s new wave rock band Missing Persons. That and a series of bizarre encounters with Hugh Hefner and Frank Zappa. "It's a miracle I lived through it. I landed on pavement," the Somerville native said of her accident, speaking from the New Hampshire farmhouse she inherited. Bozzio, now 51 and a mother of two, brings the current Missing Persons lineup to the Middle East in Cambridge tomorrow. "I was blind for an entire year afterwards," Bozzio said. "When my sight returned I had to relearn how to walk." Locked in the confines of her mind and heavily medicated, she toyed with poetry. Some of it would become lyrics for Missing Persons' Frank Zappa-funded 1982 debut, "Spring Session M." Bozzio's eye-popping outfits of transparent, multicolored plastic and her teased fluorescent hair put the videos for "Words," "Destination Unknown" and "Mental Hopscotch" in heavy rotation on MTV. But the story really began a decade earlier in 1971, when Bozzio had better luck crawling through a window at the old Boston Music Hall to get backstage during Zappa's sold-out "200 Motels" show. "I'd hoped a friend working at the Music Hall could get us in," she recalled, "but we arrived late and had to sneak up the fire escape and into a window to get backstage. I was only 16. It was quite a sight, me in glittered high heels climbing the wrought-iron stairs." Zappa appreciated the girls' determination. He asked them out to eat and later invited them to his hotel room. Bozzio passed on the hotel visit, but the impression she made on the Mothers of Invention mastermind would pay off down the road. Meanwhile, she pursued modeling.
"I worked at Boston's Playboy Club and was named Bunny of the
Year in 1975 under the name Toni Consalvi," Bozzio said. "I was
invited out to the Hefner mansion. This was a tremendous opportunity. If
Hugh liked me enough I might've gotten to live there, which is what I was
banking on when I made the trip in '76." But she hadn't planned on an intimate audition. "Hefner stood at the top of the stairs in his bathrobe and asked me to come up, but I didn't think that was wise," Bozzio said. "So I asked him to please come down and talk to me. When he wouldn't budge, I turned and walked out the door." With no dough and no mansion address, Bozzio was up the creek sans paddle, but running into Zappa again proved serendipitous. A phone call to her only L.A. friend, a musician, landed her at a recording studio where Zappa happened to be working. Barging in on him a second time resulted in a mentoring relationship that lasted a decade. It's also how she met her future husband and Missing Persons band mate, Terry Bozzio, then drumming in Zappa's band. So began the romance that sparked Missing Persons' pop success in the early '80s - a success that came only after Bozzio's recovery from her 52-foot plunge. But the band's reign was woefully short-lived. When the Bozzios' marriage dissolved in 1986, so did Missing Persons. Now Terry tours with the Zappa on Zappa tribute show, while Dale periodically revamps Missing Persons with a shifting lineup of longtime friends. Does she miss the fleeting fame she enjoyed more than 20 years ago? Or hope to recapture it? "I firmly believe that if you dwell on yesterday and tomorrow, you can't live in today," Bozzio said. "You need to find strength to handle life as it happens. I've learned not to expect anything, and that way I'm never disappointed."
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CBS/AP)
NEW YORK Michael Brecker -- a
versatile and much-studied jazz saxophonist who won eleven Grammys over a
career that spanned more than three decades -- has died. He was 57 years old. His longtime friend and agent says Brecker died today of leukemia in New York. Becker was born in 1949 in Philadelphia and had won the Grammys for his work as a tenor saxophonist. He was inspired to study the tenor saxophone by the work of jazz legend John Coltrane. He and his brothers led a successful jazz-rock fusion group called the Brecker Brothers. Throughout his career, he recorded and performed with numerous jazz and pop music leaders, including Herbie Hancock and Joni Mitchell. His technique on the saxophone was widely emulated and taught. Jazziz magazine once called him "inarguably the most influential tenor stylist of the last 25 years."
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POJAMA PEOPLE |
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2007 01 15 Thanks
Major to the very enthusiastic crowd at the Coffe House Cafe in Salem. We
should be a regular attraction there starting in mid-March. We hope to be
there on a monthly basis. What you witnessed was about half of our
repertoire....we promise a completely different show next time. In the
future, we will constantly update our catalogue and try to showcase to
y'all first. Sound like a good deal? Be our Zappa Guinea Pigs? Cool! Here are a couple of OR shows with IKE WILLIS! Feb
15 Thur 9pm 21+ Feb
17 Sat
10pm 21+ Feb
18 What's that? You'd like us to play ~your~ special event? Drop us a line, then. Visit
our site for more info, pics, links & all that.
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THE MUFFIN MEN |
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The picture on the right is from the 2003/07/25 "Zappanale#14"
concert in Bad Doberan, Germany: Carlo Bowry
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The picture on the right is from the 2003/10/07 tv documentary:
Bunk Gardner on tenor saxophone.
Picture is a captured frame from an RR video recording. The special was shown on German tv two days after the Grande Mothers gig at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival.
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The picture on the right is from the 2005/05/28 open air concert of the NDR Big Band in Hannover, Germany: Lucas Lindholm on bass and Stephan Diez on guitar. Picture is a captured frame from an RR video recording.
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clear vinyl, folded b/w cover, one-side monaural
recording
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clear vinyl, folded b/w elvis cover, monaural recording elvis on one side, zappa on the other side zappa is only mentioned on the label, not on the
picture sleeve 6" flexi from russia |
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green vinyl, folded b/w cover, one-side monaural
recording
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red vinyl, folded b/w cover, one-side monaural
recording
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blue vinyl, folded b/w cover, one-side monaural
recording
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info from "The Mudshark Anthology" by R.C. the complete list of the Mud Shark Label releases
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Here are the covers of the different Mudshark albums. The exception
being the picture of the "20 Years Of Frank Zappa" box. The
picture is from the 1984 reprint, not on the Mudshark label.
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| captain beefheart & the magic band
- hungry and weird
assembled by jeff watts
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Here's the message that should have pasted next to the FZFC Calendar
message below:
Hi Zappfan, let me introduce new club calendar for this year. 12 full color pages + 2 pages in b/w in format A3 (30x42cm). Write now and quickly. Limited edition!!! 30€+5€ post. F.Z.F.C. (fanclubzappa.brno@post.cz)
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a message from RalphAmerica FREAK
SHOW Mute
has done it again. Another beautiful hardbound book release from The
Residents' vast back catalog. This is the Freak Show release, as you've
heard it before, plus a lovely new full color hard bound book with
wonderful graphics from the Dark Horse graphic novel and a bonus DVD with
footage (never before seen) from the Freak Show DVD (which was never
completed due to the unfortunate passing of Jim Ludkte, the animator for
the project.) The DVD also contains some footage for Freak Show Live in
Prague and the Jelly Jack video. So it's a lovely little piece of work,
sure to shine in your collection. This will ship from here by the release
date of Jan 23rd.
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FRANK
ZAPPA COMPOSER PORTRAIT "Fireworks is performing a portrait concert of Frank Zappa at the Miller Theater on February 2, 2007. Fireworks will join forces with some of their favorite musician friends to present a huge range of pieces from Zappa's output, including the very difficult and rarely-heard wind quintets and string quintets, a collection of chamber orchestra pieces, and of course, a set of Zappa's instrumental rock, just for Fireworks.
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2007 02 02 PROGRAM:
TIME:
8:00 PM LOCATION:
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a message from Ugly Radio Rebellion We hope everyone had successful holidays!!! 2006 has been our best year yet and we plan to make 2007 even better!!! Upcoming
shows;
All
Reety All Righty
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PiKANTiK is working on new songs, but is also preparing a big concert of Zappa music in Cracow, featuring very special guests... More info soon.
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From alt.fan.frank-zappa / Hoodini Drummer
TERRY BOZZIO To Play On New KORN Album? - Jan. 7, 2007 http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsit... According to Korn.Simpol.Net, Terry Bozzio will fill in for KORN drummer David Silveria during his temporary hiatus from the band, Martini Republic reports. Bozzio,
56, who is long considered one of the greatest drummers in rock history,
will replace David Silveria for at least one studio album and tour. According
to Martini Republic, Silveria is taking time out from the band to maintain
his restaurants - Tuna Town and Silvera's Steakhouse & Lounge - plus
spend quality time with his family. Bozzio has recorded with numerous
musicians on hundreds of albums across the musical spectrum, including
DURAN DURAN, STEVE VAI, PAUL HYDE, HERBIE HANCOCK, DWEEZIL ZAPPA, BILLY
SHEEHAN, RICHARD MARX, MATSUMOTO HIDETO, and more. KORN is currently writing and recording material for its eighth studio album. An MTV "Unplugged" performance taped last month will be broadcast and released on CD in February.
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Below you will find some pictures of Vito
Paulekas and of Carl Franzoni.
These guys were the heart of the L.A. freak scene.
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Vito
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Vito
Paulekas dancing at an L.A. festival. |
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Vito
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Leslie adds: Here
is a link to a poem I wrote when Vito was dying... http://torchstar.diaryland.com/final.html Leslie Michel: "I
made these Flash animations last year by morphing (in Photoshop) the photo
I took of a wooden fish carving Vito made for me." http://homepage.mac.com/eilsel/_posted/woodenfish/woodenfish.html http://homepage.mac.com/eilsel/_posted/panning-fish/panning-fish.html
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Muffin Men HQ are proud to announce the Neo-Retro
line-up for Spring 2007. 4 original core members of the band have reunited for a two week UK tour scheduled for the last two weeks of April 2007. Roddie will be joined by Rhino, Jumpy and Waco, joining them will be the newest, youngest Muffin of them all Mikey Smith, along with very special guest Jimmy Carl Black.
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I added a bit of data to the Tom Waits entry. Not much, just his
discography (album titles), and the beautiful picture by Anton Corbijn.
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Manuel de la Fuente Solar has written a book on Zappa: "Frank Zappa en el Infierno" Check out his blog for more info: http://mfuente.blogspot.com from the blog: Frank
Zappa en el infierno ("Frank Zappa in Hell") is the title of a
new book by the Spanish publisher Biblioteca Nueva. It's the first
analysis written in Spanish on Frank Zappa, one of the most important
American rock musicians of the 20th century, and his work. Written by
Manuel de la Fuente Soler, a lecturer of Media Studies at the University
of Valencia, the book analyzes the role that Zappa played as a political
activist in the 80s. In those years, Zappa campaigned intensively against
the conservative government of Ronald Reagan. Frank
Zappa en el infierno looks into Zappa's work focusing on his opposition to
conservative politics. It's the first time that an analysis on Zappa's
work is carried out in Spanish, and it's also the first time that a book
deals with the links of his songs with American politics, a totally new
topic even in the literature in English. With a prologue written by Jenaro
Talens, a professor at the University of Geneva and also expert in Zappa's
work, the book looks into the meaning of the countless actions undertaken
by Zappa in order to make people aware of the dangers of reaganism. In
addition, his most important songs, in which he expressed his political
opinions, are analyzed. In preparation for this book De la Fuente Soler spent nearly five years doing research and collecting information, and he consulted the archives of several libraries in the United States. The author describes Frank Zappa en el infierno as a "study on the validity of rock music as an anti-establishment movement, a historical journey through how rock and politics influence each other".
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To All Our Eugene-Area Subscribers! Pojama
People are nominated as best New Act of 2006 by the WOW Hall. Pick up a
copy of WOW Hall Notes at the usual locations and place a check mark next
to our name. Then get the ballot to the WOW Hall by January 31. You could
win tix adding up to a $25 value, we could win "a certificate
suitable for framing." Your vote will actually count in this election
--- no electronic paperless voting here! Die, Bold, Die!!! See you somewhere soon!
Thanks,
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from André Cholmondeley - 2007 01 05 Project/Object On Tour Now hello hope to see you at a show..... we are on the road in.. ohio right now.. cleveland ROCKED see you in chicago tonite.... and elsewhere also-- we will be at the rock n roll hall of fame on FEB 14 -- more details later... Adrian Belew will be there a couple days before us... SPECIAL GUEST -- ED MANN -- for tour closer - 13-Jan
Sat Revolution Hall Troy, NY ON TOUR with PROJECT/OBJECT Dec28 2006-Jan13 2007 The Music of Frank Zappa with 10-year Zappa Vocalist IKE WILLIS http://www.projectobject.com ALL DATES WITH ZAPPA VOCALIST IKE WILLIS
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An addition to the paper corner over here at UM:
a picture of the cover of the December 1974 issue of Beetle magazine. |
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About 70 people attended the 10th meeting of the Czech Zappa Fan Club on November 4 and 5 at the 'Pub Zappa Club' in Moravska Trebova, in the Czech Republic. The below pictures should show you that all had a great time: they listened to music, watched DVDs on a big screen and had a lot of discussions... pictures and info: Bohous
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Bootleg label Apocalypse Sound has announced a new bootleg DVD:
pabellón de deportes de montjuic, barcelona, may 17,
1988
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January 2007 Back
to the future tense, DOOT! has some new aural excitement for your ear
canal in 2007. The R&D
process is underway and we are lurching forward.
Keep your browsers peeled for more website upgrades, more audio
clips, and more crazy photos. Andre, Ike, Eric, Dave, Eric, Seahag, and Jordan were slammin. Please check them out while they tirelessly cavort across the nation for your pleasure. http://projectobject.com
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the
project Galipoche and Chipiron, dedicated to Lola is finished, and
will be published on Jardin au Fou http://www.homme-moderne.org/jardinaufou/
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Thanks to slime.oofytv.set, these fabulous magazine covers have been added
to the UM magazine gallery:
I'm pretty sure that this is not even the top of the iceberg, so please take a couple of mags from your "zappa pile", scan them in, and send them to bignote at yucom dot be. We'd all appreciate it.
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I told you about the new Jock Bartley album yesterday. (scroll a bit further down) Billy James adds that Bob Harris sings lead on three tracks !!
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(info from an ebay sale) March 19th 1991 - frank zappa conducting ensemble
modern - burnt weeny sandwich part 2 - 12" vinyl record test
pressing manufactured by specialty records corporation olyphant,
pennslyvania for barking pumpkin records - matrix numbers - 74239-a/b z
1-dmm sp1-1 818-pumpkin prearion td. This is an official pressing made for barking pumpkin records and it's not " The Yellow Shark " or a reissue of the october 1969 Mothers Of Invention classic lp " Burnt Weeny Sandwich ".
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In 1991 the group Ensemble Modern were in Los Angeles rehearsing some music that Frank had written for them. During this period they went into the studio to record this album "Burnt Weeny Sandwich - Part 2 ". The following year Ensemble Modern performed a series of concerts in Europe known as "The Yellow Shark ". I obtained this record from a guy in los angeles many
years ago that told me this was indeed " Burnt Weeny Sandwich - Part
2 ". There wasn't a record information sheet that was given to me
with this record so I can't give you the track listings. I can recognise
some of the themes: at the beginning of side 2 is "Semi-Fraudulent /
Direct-From-Hollywood Overture" and later on the same side appears
"This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich" {prologue & reprise}
both from 200 Motels.
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The Pharos (who later became The Rhythm Surfers) recorded an acetate at Paul Buff's Pal Studio in Cucamonga in 1963. According to the drummer, Dan Byramer, both tracks were recorded by Frank Zappa and Paul Buff. The
A-side
was originally done as the Pharos (THIS ACETATE) and then released on the Daytone Label -out of Hacienda Heights,
CA.- as The Rhythm Surfers-GREAT Reverb SURF with Screams, Hollers
and a Wild Guitar
& ORGAN! The B-side was written by their manager and never released! The
acetate has the mailing address for Pal Studios on the label: 8072
Archibald Ave, Cucamong, California.
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Guitarist and guitar-innovator Del Casher performed with The Mothers Of Invention around 1967. The picture on the right shows Matt Groening and Del Casher. Picture taken from the delcasher dot com website.
http://delcasher.com/Home.html
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from alt.fan.frank-zappa / Hoodini - 2006/11 Del has been on the cutting edge of music, guitars and entertainment for all audiences. His credits include all areas of the entertainment industry. Del produced and played for Vic Mizzy, the alternate theme for Sony Pictures' "Spiderman 2." He appeared on screen with Elvis Presley in the movie "Roustabout" and Jerry Lewis in "The Patsy" both at Paramount. Warren Beatty selected Del to be featured in the film "Love Affair" at Warner Brothers with his ethnic balalika performance. Del introduced the first wah wah to the world at Universal Pictures. Del was featured with his "Wah" on the opening title to Vic Mizzy's theme for "The Traveling Saleslady" starring Phyllis Diller. He was featured on the sound tracks for "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken," "The Shakiest Gun in the West," and "The Ambushers" at M-G-M. Del introduced his personal wah wah circuit design for the guitar while working with Vox . He produced a record demonstrating the new sound of a wah wah which until that time had never been heard. He began his career during his high school years in Hammond, Indiana and starred in his radio show "The Many Guitars of Del Casher" at WJOB. After college, Del came to Hollywood. He brought his invention ideas of the Ecco Fonic that earned him a position with the world famous RCA New York recording group "The Three Suns."He appeared at the Coconut Grove, Las Vegas, and an international tour to Japan which featured their hit RCA album "The Three Suns in Japan." After his tour, Frank Zappa discovered that Del had unique pedals and echos and asked Del to arrange, produce, and play the theme for a Roger Corman movie "Queen of Blood." Immediately Frank Zappa asked Del to join his group, "The Mothers" for appearances at the Shrine Auditorium and the Whiskey A-Go-Go in Hollywood. Frank featured Del on his famous "Freak Out" performance that was aired on the David Susskind TV Show for ABC television. On the opposite end of the spectrum he was the music producer and arranger for "The New Zoo Revue" children's. He also composed music for "Chico and the Man" starring Freddie Prinze and Jack Albertson, both for NBC followed by music for NBC's Thorton Wilder's "Our Town." Union Records of Japan contracted Del to arrange and produce his own albums as "Del Casher and his Sonics" for the Japanese market. Japan Victor commissioned Del to produce several albums of the Billy Vaughn Orchestra and their hits. In the beginning in 1966, Vox Musical Instruments asked Del to develop and promote new sounds for the guitar. His greatest achievement was the Vox wah wah pedal. He introduced it in February 1967 by producing a record with his guitar demonstrating the "wah wah" with his original music that best demostrated the use of the "wah wah." Incorporating his unique guitar sounds NBC asked Del to produce a new "NBC News Center 4" theme which played every night for 18 years. It became one of the longest running television news themes from 1971- 1988. Del has performed with Julie London, Bobby Troup, Bob Hope, Peggy Lee, Buddy Ebsen, Danny Thomas, Donald O'Connor, Motown Records,The Ray Conniff Orchestra, Sonny and Cher, Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" and played with "The Three Suns" in Hollywood, Las Vegas and Japan. He has appeared on Doug MacIntyre's KABC radio talk show and Art Fein's "TV Poker Party" interviews. Del also played on numerous "Little House on the Prairie" episodes and was the featured guitarist on Gene Autry's weekly TV show "Melody Ranch." Del produced, arranged, and performed a Jimi Hendrix-style wah wah for Miramax's film "Reindeer Games." Del was recently a featured artist at the "Viva Las Vegas Festival" in Las Vegas and will perform in London as a featured guest on several radio interviews and performances there. He is also the anime producer for the Tenchi Muyo DVD series. Del is the composer for his "Americana Suite" for orchestra which was recently world premiered in southern California. Del performs throughout the world as a featured guest soloist.
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from alt.fan.frank-zappa / Mike Espinoza Bring
It Back 5:21 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes
come to us, Brother Sisters
scared of tomorrows Where are they now? All
at once I lost how close I was to him And
I feel that love has left and gone away Change
over the water I
just don't know how I'm
a stranger in the home I grew up in And
I feel that love has left and gone away Oh, bring it back Please And
I feel that love has left and gone away Oh,
yeah, yeah
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from alt.fan.frank-zappa / Hoodini - 2007/01 from alt.fan.frank-zappa / Oscar Bianco - 2007-01 from alt.fan.frank-zappa / Hoodini - 2007/01 from alt.fan.frank-zappa / Charles Ulrich - 2007/01 Oh, and another one of his records was "The Trip", which was released under his own name. It's on the four-disc Nuggets. from alt.fan.frank-zappa / Pat Buzby - 2007/01
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from alt.fan.frank-zappa / Hoodini Bob Harris guest appearance on Firefall Guitarist's Debut CD Firefall
Guitarist Debut CD Features All-Star Line-up Debut
solo CD by Jock Bartley, guitarist with Firefall, features guest http://prweb.com/releases/2007/1/prweb490754.htm Colorado
(PRWEB) January 3, 2007 -- Rock 'n' Roll is alive and well as
Songs
from Blindside effortlessly span the musical spectrum -- from Another
highlight of this exciting new CD is the positive message song Blindside
is now available on the new independent record label Winged Horse Records.
It is also available on www.jockbartley.net and My Space for individual
songs or entire CD download. Blindside can also soon be purchased online
from CDBaby.com, iTunes and E-Bay. In support of Bartley's new album,
plans for a major tour of the US and Europe are in the formative stages. In Addition to his new CD and continuing work with Firefall, Jock is an artist of growing renown. Four of his Beatles paintings are featured in a new coffee table book released worldwide, entitled Beatles Art - Fantastic New Artworks of The Fab Four, in which Jock has also written the foreword. Borders Books is sponsoring a number of Colorado and national book signing 'events' in which they will also display, promote and sell his solo CD Blindside. For
more information: www.jockbartley.net
& www.firefall.com
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Here's a picture of the German translation of the 1993 "Frank Zappa -
In His Own Words" book by Omnibus Press:
frank zappa - in eigenen worten
by miles
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2006/12/18, belgian Cucamonga radio show featured an interview with Muffin Roddie Gilliard. All about their Retro Series. Also suddenly available: a brand-new Muffin Men DVD: Muffin Men Live @ Zappanale Friday July 28th 2003 More info soon. Be sure to check out http://www.muffinmen.co.uk/ |
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Still a little high from celebrating New Year's Eve?
We're
All Gonna Die Soon Life
is terribly short
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The Best Finnish..schlager ever competition, organized by YLE, the Finnish National Broadcasting Company, has come to it´s end.. Unto Mononen´s "Satumaa" got silver with 14,7 % dedicated Finnish schlager-lovers´ votes...
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and check out their site at http://www.liveatthespace.com/pjp/
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Check
out FZLE,
they're playing a concert on saturday, january 27. 2007 at "Harders", Svendborg, DK
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How about
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FZ
Europe vacation tour and music festival July 27 - August 6! Each
summer for the past 18 years, Zappaphiles from all over have migrated to
the northern German town of Bad Doberan for the Zappanale, a festival
devoted to the music and conceptual continuity of FZ. Now your summer
vacation can be an absolutely Zappa experience. Our
good friends at Arf Society, the German non-profit group that organizes
the Zappanale, passed this along to us, and we thought we would share it. Vacation
Vibrations, a Boston-based tour operator, is pleased to announce Farther
Oblivion Tour 2007 a
tour package that will bring FZ fans to that great worldwide annual
gathering in Germany of Appliantologists and Dental Floss Tycoons. The
tour begins in Berlin on July 27, 2007. The group will tour the city, and
attend an extraordinary event, when "Street Number 13" will be
formally dedicated as "Frank-Zappa-Strasse", the first street in
the world named for FZ. The dedication will be followed by music for the
rest of the day, and a late "chill-party" that is sure to
exemplify Berlin's legendary nightlife. From
Berlin the tour will proceed to Prague. Prague is not only one of the most
beautiful cities in Europe, but FZ holds a special place in Czech history.
Former Czech president Vaclav Havel called Zappa "one of the gods of
the Czech underground" for his uncompromising belief in freedom of
thought and expression, and that spirit lives on. After
enjoying Prague, the tour will head to the northern German town of Bad
Doberan for the 18th annual Zappanale, a three-day festival of Zappa
tribute bands, former Zappa band members, and other musicians and
performance artists with kindred styles and interests from all over the
world. The Zappanale is designed as a complete Zappa experience, with the
atmosphere on the festival grounds every bit as important as what happens
on stage. The whole town gets into the fun, from the café waitstaff in
the town square to the mayor himself. Headlining
Zappanale 18 will be the Terry Bozzio Out Trio. (Terry Bozzio - need we
say more?) Other US groups will be the prodigies from Philadelphia's Paul
Green School Of Rock, the renowned Project/Object, and the Don Preston
Akashic Ensemble (Don Preston - one of the Mothers of all Mothers!) So
far, the line-up will also include French big band Le Bocal, Italy's
Orchestra Spaziale, Team Zappa from Norway, Zappatronix from Switzerland,
and three Danish bands- Octafish, Space Debris, and Trigon. The
tour group will be deposited back at the Berlin airport on August 6th,
totally plooked out of their brains from music, "cities and
beer", and lots of fun. Did you say you want some more-a? Tour
participants who want to continue their vacation after the Zappanale can
book an optional tour extension to Amsterdam, another awesome city with
legendary nightlife that is also devoted to independent thinking and
freedom of expression. Vacation
Vibrations is a division of American International Tour Groups, a group
tour operator with 15 years of experience specializing in customized group
trips. Whether you are an experienced traveler, or this will be your first
international trip, they'll make sure you have an absolutely amazing time.
For
more information, you can visit their web site:
www.freewebs.com/fartheroblivion . If you have any questions, you can
contact them at VacationVibrations@Gmail.com , or call 617-721-7996.
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** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** The Dresdner Philharmonie, conductor Roland Kluttig, will be performing orchestra pieces by Frank Zappa and Edgar Varèse on 2007/03/27 at the 'Alter Schlachthof' in Dresden, Germany. http://www.dresdnerphilharmonie.de/ * * newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash **
Sa
24. 03. 2007 20:00 Uhr Alter
Schlachthof Dresdner
Philharmoniker anders - 3. Abend Zappa! Orchesterkompositionen
von Frank Zappa und Edgar Varèse Edgar
Varèse (1883-1965):
Frank
Zappa (1940-1993)
Dresdner
Philharmonie Er
ist das enfant terrible des Avantgarde-Rock: Frank Zappa. Weniger bekannt
ist: Er hat auch für Orchester komponiert. Sein großes Vorbild war Edgar
Varèse. Zappa war 15 Jahre jung, als er sich von seinen Eltern Geld zum
Geburtstag schenken ließ, damit er Varèse in New York anrufen konnte.
Varèse war erstaunt, dass ein Junge aus dem Mittleren Westen sich für
seine Musik interessierte, und Zappa wunderte es, dass sein großes
Vorbild ein Stück mit dem Titel "Desert" komponierte - eine Wüste,
in der er seinerzeit lebte. Der in Dresden ausgebildete Roland Kluttig hat sich in den letzten Jahren vor allem als Operndirigent und als Dirigent außergewöhnlicher Konzertprogramme mit verschiedenen deutschen Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchestern einen Namen gemacht. An der Stuttgarter Staatsoper war er bis 2004 als musikalischer Assistent von Lothar Zagrosek engagiert und leitete u. a. Schönbergs "Moses und Aron" sowie Morton Feldmans "Neither", die für ihn zum Triumph wurden. Beim Aldeburgh Festival 2005 dirigierte er die Uraufführung von Richard Ayres Oper "The cricket recovers". Seit 2004 ist er Principal Conductor beim Crested Butte Music Festival in den USA, wo er insbesondere mit moderierten Sinfoniekonzerten begeisterte. Immer wieder erkundet er mit speziellen Projekten die Werke von Komponisten wie Berlioz, Satie, Eisler oder Bernd Alois Zimmermann.
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Project/Object, featuring Ike Willis
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UK
Zappa Festival Announced! The Zappateers are pleased to announce their 1st UK Zappa Festival to be held in Bradford-on-Avon on the weekend of 16th - 18th February 2007. The Festival is to be held at ‘The George’ Public House – a major local venue for live music. The weekend festival will feature at least 6 bands – already confirmed are the young and excitable ‘Monty and The Butchers’, Dutch coverband ‘The Foolz’, and Liverpudlian Zappa stalwarts ‘The Muffin Men’. Supplementing this line up will be a number of local bands. Festival Organiser Paul Barnard said “We have an excellent venue booked, with a committed Landlord, and have negotiated very attractive accommodation rates with local hostelries. We hope to announce weekend ticket prices very soon to include the option of hotels as part of the overall price. We hope that by including bed and breakfast as a part of the package we will attract Zappateers from all over the world, and encourage them all to experience some excellent music combined with some real West Country hospitality”. Co-organiser Benjamin Darling added “The Festival will be supporting the Marie Curie Cancer Charity, which is a regular beneficiary of The George Pub. As Zappa died prematurely of prostate cancer, we hope to be able to have a great festival and contribute to this worthy cause”. The Zappateers will be announcing ticket prices and booking details on their website early in December 2006. But fans need to be quick – with a venue limit of 75 the Zappateers expect the event to be a sell out. 2007/02/16 -18 concert "UK Zappa Festival", Bradford-on-Avon, UK
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